2008 - GOALS: go to Central America for the summer without getting fired from any of my jobs, do another photo exhibition and some performances of music/poetry, and enjoy my life! wish me luck...

Sunday, January 08, 2006

The books I bought while in California

Now going home is always a Ben Franklin-type adventure, where I have a large bag of clothes, papers, photos and other things that I want to bring to California and then, in turn, bring a lot of other things back, namely books. This Xmas was a good example of how much I've been reading lately and how sort of books interest me at this point in my life so here is the list of books I bought while home:

A History of the Popes - Charles Coulombe (just as it says, broken down pope by pope)Salt - Mark Kurlansky (great writer who wrote 1968)Spice: A History of Temptation - Jack Turner (never thought about spice in this way)The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson (about 1893 World's Fair in Chicago)The Measure of All Things - Ken Alder (about 2 French journeys to determine Earths' diameter)Nazi Hunter - Alan Levy (about the guy who hunted Nazis for 30 years after WWII)The Great Bridge - David McCullough (about the building of the Brooklyn Bridge)The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire - Alan PalmerDuh! The Stupid History of the Human Race - Bob Fenster (stupid things we have done)The Darwin Awards - Wendy Northcutt (dumb ways people have died)How to Overthrow the Government - Arianna Huffman (about what's wrong with US govt.)Useful Idiots - Mona Charen (about how Liberals keep blaming America first)It's Still the Economy, Stupid - Paul Begala (how Bush ruined big budget surplus)2004 World AlmanacDresden 1945 - Alaexander McKee (about bombing of Dresden at end of WWII)The Main Enemy - Milt Bearden (about 1980's CIA vs. KGB in Moscow, Afghanistan, DC)